Here’s Clarkson, bringing cold logic to environmentalist slogans. It’s just over fifteen minutes of your time, and worth every second.
It may well turn out that the best day for the future of British agriculture was the day when Jeremy Clarkson decided to buy and run a farm.
He is correct, you know. William Jennings said more than a century ago, “Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms, and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country”.
Just as Clarkson says here, Cities are built on the foundation of agricultural resources, and without farms, urban centers would collapse. Agriculture is the true foundation of a nation’s prosperity, as the people in cities ultimately rely on food from farms for survival. `
No Farms No Food is a bumper sticker seen around here occasionally.
Clarkson is absolutely right. A nation that can’t feed itself is at the mercy of its suppliers. Ukraine is already embroiled in a prolonged war and I’m sure that has had a negative impact on food and fertilizer production in Europe.
I try to buy local when I can. Hopefully this supports local farmers and ranchers.
This video shows why Clarkson is the Greatest Living Englishman currently.
maybe. just maybe, we, the U.S.A., should begin (if we haven’t left it for too late already) taking a good hard look at what’s been happening to our own farm land
Like growing corn and then burning it in our cars, resulting in decreased gas mileage?
Like growing millions of acres of soy and sending it all to China at prices so low the farmers can’t hardly make a living wage because that’s the only way to undercut the Chinese farmers.
I live in a rural area. Actually in a Town but we have corn fields on the perimeter. Most of the crops grown around here are not used to feed people. They are feed stocks for other processes.
Clarkson is spot on however. You remove farms and the rest blows away. What we are seeing around here is the decline of the cattle industry. Cows need more than pigs or chickens which are doing ok. Wait till the greenies put their sights on those critters.
I often wonder what the skinnies are eating in the cities of Africa.
World is dying slowly just to be reborn. My grand dad had 30 odd years as a retired person. I wonder if I will have as long.
Keep your powder dry and your weapons close.
It appears that the lessons of WWII have been forgotten.
I’ll have to watch the clip later when we have time.
This is why I detest the EPA, BLM, USFS, FWS etc. They went past their mandate long ago to keep drinking water clean. They are overpopulated with activists who are highly sympathetic to other activists and don’t give two shits about who they hit with their regulatory hammer. Agriculture USED to be the one area where someone could still be free & independent, all the green bullshit was to bring it under the regulatory boot-heel.
Don’t feel too bad about ALL the farmers either, they are first in line for every Dept Of Ag or whatever subsidy/handout/whatever. So they are the victims of their own greed too, they get a cash handout and never stop to look at whose dick they are going to eventually have to suck to get it. Which is the case of a lot of citizenry feeding at the public trough.
People of my ilk say Socialism/Communism doesn’t work in real life (and all the net-zero, green, obamacare shit are really socialist schemes), but all of us who say that are wrong. They don’t work at providing the benefits they promote, they absolutely DO work for the actual goal of subjugating people and making them wards of the State.
That is a prime example of Leftist Thought – it’s all based on feelings and the arrogance that accompanies a lust for power, without any true knowledge. A leftist believes laws for thee are mere suggestions for me; elites are exempt, because they have to tell the uneducated proles what to think and do. IMHO, their wet-dream fantasies would fail more often than not if, as Clarkson did, actual numbers and a systems approach entered into their schemes.
What Clarkson just wonderfully illustrated were Lord Kelvin’s words I posted here earlier:
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.”
In my old age, I’ve gone beyond just not liking Leftists and have come to utterly despise them, their ideas and especially their hypocrisy.
Absolutely correct, but I believe this is AI-produced using a synthetic Clarkson voice. Notice it’s all VO. No sync video of Clarkson speaking the words.
Yup. This may all be right, but it’s not Jeremy Clarkson. It’s AI. Pretty good, as AI goes, but AI nonetheless.
This underlines something I’ve been saying for a while; there are real environmental issues; lack of clean water sources in the third world, the drawing down of aquifers in the U.S. (and presumably elsewhere). But most environmentalists concentrate on problems like Global Warming that may not exist, and/or proposing solutions that are wasted energy at best and often simply counterproductive. Most environmentalism is about preening moral superiority, not addressing real issues.
Want to save biodiversity and habitat? Encourage the spread of the farming practices of the third agricultural revolution, sometimes called the green revolution, that vastly increased agricultural productivity. Grow more food on less land. Admit that ‘organic farming’ requires up to three times the footprint to achieve the same output, and in consequence is more damaging to the environment. Admit that encouraging the underdeveloped nations to embrace the industrial revolution will result, as it did in the U.S., in greater wealth and more efficient land use.
“Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.” – Lord Kelvin
I believe Lord Kelvin foresaw the emergence of our econazis more than a hundred years ago.
And feminists.